                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PROSTITUTION; SOLICITATION; COMMERCIAL EXPLOITATION OF A MINOR; PENALTIES (§
18.2-346.01)

Any person who offers money or its equivalent to another for the purpose of
engaging in sexual acts enumerated in § 18.2-346 and thereafter does any
substantial act in furtherance thereof is guilty of solicitation of
prostitution, which is punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor. However, any person
who solicits prostitution from a minor (i) 16 years of age or older is guilty of
a Class 6 felony or (ii) younger than 16 years of age is guilty of a Class 5
felony.

HISTORY: 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 188.